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Erdoğan has finally declared his one-man rule. He’s on his way to turning Turkey into a banana republic where corruption, poverty, & lawlessness reign. From now on, it’s a patriotic duty to cut off all ties & transactions with anyone who continues to support this rotten regime.

YouTube video by DW News Massacre of Alawites continues in Syria | DW News

Never trust religious fundamentalists (Islamist or otherwise) to respect democracy, freedom of conscience, and human rights.

youtube.com/watch?v=Dqd3...

The International Online School in Forced Migration offers an interdisciplinary & participative approach to the study of forced migration.

Applications are open for the following dates this academic year:

📆 17-21 March
📆 23-27 June

Join us!

https://buff.ly/3OeUE1U

Oh thanks, this is good to know.

Hi Pam, when I look at your profile, I just see one pinned thread about your scholarly identity.

Extending Blumer’s group position theory, we argue that in deeply polarized societies, natives might view migrants through the lens of how these newcomers might affect their group’s social position vis-à-vis other domestic groups.

Thus, secular Turks’ animosity toward Syrian refugees does not stem merely from an aversion to religious traditionalism but reflects broader concerns about their own power and status in contemporary Turkey.

On one hand, secular citizens worry that Syrian refugees could shift the political balance in favor of Erdoğan, thereby further undermining. On the other, they associate Syrian refugees with Turkey’s growing estrangement from the West and the resulting decline in secularism and women’s freedoms.

We find that secular Turks’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees are entangled with the political and lifestyle threats they feel under President Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian and Islamist regime.

We address this question through a sequential mixed methods design, integrating focus group discussions and in-depth interviews conducted in Istanbul in late 2019 with an original survey of Istanbul residents fielded in July-August 2020.

Unusual suspects? A group position approach to explaining anti-refugee attitudes among secular Turks Why do Turkish majority members with a secular outlook exhibit above-average levels of antipathy toward Syrian refugees, despite their left-leaning political views and relatively cosmopolitan cultu...

New publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

We ask why secular Turks exhibit above-average levels of antipathy toward Syrian refugees, despite their left-leaning political views and relatively cosmopolitan cultural dispositions.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JBIHT...

Syrians in Turkey Agonize Over a Return Home With the Assad regime out of power, millions weigh the decision to go back to their war-torn country.

Great article by Alia Malek. Happy to have made a small contribution.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/m...

The Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Stop Serving Corporate Interests The Democratic Party is trying to serve two masters—the people and the corporate donors.

The Democratic Party is trying to serve two masters—the people and the corporate donors. And until it picks the people over its corporate masters, the Democratic Party will keep losing.

My latest in @Newsweek www.newsweek.com/democrats-wi...

Roughly 68,000 Americans die each year due to lack of healthcare.

Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in America.

It’s way past time for single-payer healthcare.

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

stata2r.github.io

Interesting read.

A mistake during IVF treatment led two mothers to give birth to each other's baby girls. After bonding with them for months, the families discovered the truth — and faced a devastating choice. Should they switch their girls? nyti.ms/3OtbJG5

Best of 'How To': Spend Time on What You Value How to make the most of your downtime

What's holding you back from from finding the free time you crave?

Arthur Brooks explains how to avoid the traps that incentive us to overschedule. Learn how to reclaim your time from work and productivity:

You can reduce your risk of dementia. Here's how to get started About 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by healthy lifestyle choices and preventive medicine. Here's a tool to gauge your brain care and track your progress.

About 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by healthy lifestyle choices and preventive medicine. Here's a tool to gauge your brain care and track your progress.

Text: 527 Explorer. Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations commonly called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they're spending their money. Image: Webpage screenshot of ProPublica's 527 Explorer tool.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: https://propub.li/4i01FSv

Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting? After steadily leaving the Democratic Party, working-class voters are increasingly seen as pivotal in US elections. What type of candidates should par…

working-class voters are more likely to prefer a candidate with a working-class occupation, not due to policy positions or class rhetoric but because they perceive them as more understanding of their problems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The median household income is around $80k.

The Science of Disagreeing Well : Up First from NPR What turns a playful debate into an angry, tearful argument? Or a cheerful Thanksgiving feast into a frosty dessert? America is heading into the holiday season after a divisive election season. So we're featuring an episode from NPR's science podcast Short Wave about what happens in our brains during conflict: Why it tempts us to shut down, and how we can navigate difficult conversations—political or otherwise—without losing control.

We're featuring an episode from NPR's science podcast Short Wave about what happens in our brains during conflict: Why it tempts us to shut down, and how we can navigate difficult conversations—political or otherwise—without losing control.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Understanding the Immigrant Swing Toward Trump Liberal pundits have puzzled over increasing support for Trump by immigrants and people of color. To understand the trend, we should look to economic issues and the way institutions like unions and ch...

@sharonquinsaat.bsky.social has a great piece in @jacobinmag.bsky.social re: why some immigrant groups swung to Trump, but not others. Drawing on her field research, she shows the key role that orgs like unions and churches play in shaping political identities.

jacobin.com/2024/11/immi...

You cannot have a real democracy when candidates are spending billions of dollars, most of which come from wealthy donors and corporations.

Thanks, Pam. But I don’t want to pin everything I find interesting or useful to my profile. I want to create a personal repository of posts I can visit later.

I think we need a “Bookmarks” button on this platform to save interesting or useful posts.